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Is it me or are all the Verterians dropping TR?

Maybe its me, but i am noticing a lot of the veterans of TR and those who have had the best answers seem to be disappearing from TR. I feel like something toward the end of 2011 or beginning of 2012 changed at TR , especially in the Q and A section, not sure what it is, but I feel its less of a community and more of people posting random questions. Maybe i am just getting old...LOL (well i am but not that old)

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Yep Mark you are an Old Fart

But you are correct after the last site downgrade the sense of community was shot to **** and there was an active movement to attempt to get people to join My Face and Book Space a while ago to get rid of the nuisance nontechnical posting here on TR.

Seems that many have taken to FB with a vengeance and while I do have 2 accounts there I see it more as a Major Security Breach and otherwise totally useless. FB is so secure that the 2 Accounts that I setup one for Private Family and one for Professional have been so throughly cross linked that it's not funny by FB itself and I currently have members of my family demanding to know who I am because I'm not Col even though I'm impersonating him.

Add-in Groupon or whatever the idiot place is called who hosts the Avatars which can no longer be animated and TR has taken quite a few backward steps and a lot of the people have simply left for greener pastures.

Of course making one of my Alter Ego's a Moderator didn't help them at all either.

@ this rate within a year or two TR will be reduced to answering Homework Questions and telling people how to Crack Passwords on Windows only systems.

Other than the FB Burfday Alerts that I get I haven't been back there for a very long time and currently I don't have any intentions of going back. I see FB as being as Useful as Teats on a Bull but maybe that's just me.

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Col, you're braver than I am, I refuse to "join Facebook", I've spent more time cleaning spyware and trojans from my kids computers the past couple of years that are directly linked to Facebook.

But yes, our community is falling apart somewhat. Even when there is a tech question, the OPs rarely give a vote up for help. And thehomework question just rile me up sometimes...I can't believe some of the things those lazy arses ask!

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However it wasn't my idea to join I had to for family reasons a cousin was under treatment for Cancer his wife was under treatment for a failed Hip which needed replacing and my Mommy didn't use a computer so I had to monitor FB to keep her up with the news.

Things sort of went downhill from there but it's Pitiful really and just a massive waste of time. About the only good reason to maintain my low presence there is to keep an eye on Attacks over it for the customers who think that it's great along with Music Downloads for their iPods from any number of Torrents.

All totally pointless if you ask me. If I log in once a month for 10 seconds that's Extremely High usage for me.

OH BTW Wiz my teacher didn't tell me how to answer this question and I've been a Rabid Student and can not answer this question so will you answer it for me? :^0 :^0

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Thank you for responding, The whole Facebook thig, im just not one to get on that bandwagon. Interesting story you have about you rFB experience. Even my company is making an internal FB like page so you can post what you do , etc during the day. Must be a generation thing, but i really dont have time to be futzing around posting what i do all day on soem web page. Time sheet work fine (and we are still required to fill those in too)

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Good to know I'm not the only one who spurns FB as a security breach, I have started to use g+ though that may prove to be short lived as it also lacks some essential security.

As to pros leaving TR, it really isn't hard to see why. The last couple redesigns have been going backwards, while quality of content has gone downhill. I subscribe to several of the newsletters and find mostly repetitive links throughout them with an occasional original link, and many links go back to very old content it seems.

I'm not very active at TR or any of the other CNET properties, but have been a member of ZDNet since 1995. I can honestly remember when ZDNet was a valuable asset creating tools and other software along with writing reviews that actually had some meat to them.

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I'd say you ignore their reasons for leaving at your peril. This was a great place to hang out and be a part of. We had a nice mix of technical and non technical conversations going on, and a real sense of community.

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